BOTTOM LINE: Set almost entirely among a crew of WWII bombardiers and a prisoner-of-war camp, women are all but absent from this film. (Even the protagonist’s mother, in the brief scenes of his childhood, isn’t really a character in any true sense of the word.) And that’s okay. Calling for women to be better represented on film doesn’t mean there isn’t a place for stories that are all about men.

NOTE: This is not a “review” of Unbroken! It is simply an examination of how well or how poorly it represents women. (A movie that represents women well can still be a terrible film; a movie that represents women poorly can still be a great film.) Read my review of Unbroken.